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Sample Sources

The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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The New York Intellectuals

We were living directly after the Holocaust of the European Jews. We might scorn our origins; we might crush America with discoveries of ardor; we might change our names. But we knew that but for an…

Don Iudá

Just then Don Iudá took off his coat and greeted us one by one. My mother, out of breath as we’d been in such a hurry to come, explained everything in short choppy phrases.We children would stay there…

Ferocious Animals

Benleví:[while he speaks, Sara enters with the slippers] All they do in the synagogue is talk about Ishmael.Sara:[bent over, putting on the slippers] They seem to forget that they’re there to talk to…

Regulations

 Bylaws of the Holy Society for Torah Study of the holy community of Kraków, instituted by our rabbis, the Rema [Moses Isserles], ha-Baḥ [Joel Sirkes], known by the title of his book, Bayit ḥadash [Ne…
Photograph of headstones in cemetery.
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Chatham Square Cemetery

Among the graves in the burial ground of Congregation Shearith Israel, in New York City (the oldest Jewish cemetery in the United States) is that of Cantor Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745–1816), the first…
Photograph of tombstone with Hebrew text, engraved columns, and decorative objects on top.
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Tombstone of Torah Scholar

This tombstone of a Torah scholar from Sieniawa, Poland includes motifs and symbols often found on Jewish tombstones in Poland, such as a crown and palm trees. Other common symbols on Jewish…